AXEL

I couldn't decide what emotions I was feeling for this woman. It was a mess, swirling from one emotion to another. But the one I felt the most, that made it hard to breathe, was devastation.

Devastation that this wonderful woman wasn't mine, that she didn't know the depth of my feelings for her. And devastation that there was no way to show her the full depth of it.

If I could rip my chest open and show her how my heart was beating for her, God, I would do it.

And out of nowhere came a realization; I was in love with her.

My eyes grew wide, my...